Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> On Thursday 16 September 2004 17:33, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > What I'm talking about, I'll now rename a "history diff". A history
> > diff may consist of one or more action diffs in sequence, each with
> > associated log text, author, and date. History diffs apply to
> > repositories. A dumpfile is a history diff meant to be applied to an
> > empty repository.
>
> This last sentence has been said several times. But with incremental dumps
> don't we actually already do the "history diff" against an existing tree?
> The main part that seems missing is the dumpfilter side of it ie. not
> including changes for the whole repository, just a subset.
You wanna talk about kludges? Let's talk about kludges.
svndumpfilter is kludge. Nice itch, wrong scratch.
That said, you are correct to say that it is not true that a dumpfile
must be applied to an empty repository. As you noted, incremental
dumps (ala 'svnadmin dump -rX:Y --incremental') do not contain a full
"history diff", or at least that "diff" is not against an empty
history.
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Received on Fri Sep 17 16:53:04 2004